India and Australia will play the five-Test Border-Gavaskar Trophy later this year. This series between the two teams will start from November 22. Before this intense rivalry, Australia’s Usman Khawaja, Josh Hazlewood and Mitchell Marsh had a special conversation with Star Sports. Khawaja said – India and Australia are the top-2 teams
37-year-old opener Usman Khawaja said – We have been the world’s number one and world’s number two teams for the last two years. We won the last World Test Championship against India. India has been winning the Border-Gavaskar Trophy for four consecutive times. Because of this, there is a rivalry between the two teams. I know that Indians like to beat Australia in any format of cricket. Sometimes India wins and sometimes we win: Mitchell Marsh
Australia’s T20 captain Mitchell Marsh said, if you look at history, sometimes they (India) win and sometimes we win. Whenever this happens, a rivalry comes between us. As you know, there is friendship between our players and theirs, there is no hatred of any kind, but there is equal rivalry to win the match on the field. We all get a chance to take cricket forward in any way. They know our conditions: Josh Hazlewood
Australian pacer Josh Hazlewood said, playing against India is full of challenges. They know our conditions and like to play here. You all know how challenging it is to play in Australia. Their (India) top order is always excellent. I played my debut series against them and we won it. I also dismissed Virat in that game, but he still scored a lot of runs. Cummins is eager to win the series
Australia’s Test captain Pat Cummins had said about the Test series against India, ‘This is a trophy that I have not won before. This is a trophy that many players in our group have not been able to win. We have achieved great things as a Test group in the last few years, just couldn’t beat India. You try to win every series at home.” Test series will start from November 22
The 5-Test series between India and Australia will start from November 22 this year. The first Test will be in Perth. The second Test will be played in Adelaide, the third Test in Brisbane, the fourth Test in Melbourne and the fifth Test in Sydney from January 3. India won the last four series
India won the last 2 Test series in Australia in 2018-19 and 2020-21 by a margin of 2-1. India has captured the last four series of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, 2 at home and 2 in Australia. Of these, the series were held in India during 2016-17 and 2022-23, in which Team India also won by a margin of 2-1. India at number-1 in WTC points table
India is currently at the first position in the World Test Championship points table. India has 68.52% points, while Australia is at number two with 62.50% percentage points. New Zealand is third and England is fourth is at number 1. The WTC final will be played in England from next 11 June.
